Flora of North America species comparison

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Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata
Photo is of parent taxon
Habit Herbs annual or short-lived perennial.
Stems

erect, 30–150 cm, strigillose to strigose-hirsute.
Leaves

3-foliolate;

stipules absent;

leaflet blades linear to linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 40–110(–150) mm, length 5–10 times width, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.
Racemes

12–26(–40)-flowered, terminal, subterminal, or lateral, 10–35 cm;

bracts persistent, subulate or filiform, 0.5–3 mm, basally expanded.
Flowers

calyx broadly cylindrical, truncate basally and deflexed against pedicel, 2.5–4 mm, lobes subulate to triangular-acuminate, usually shorter than tube, shiny-glabrous or glabrate;

corolla yellow with faint reddish purple lines, often dark purple basally, 8–11 mm.
Legumes

(16–)18–38 × 4–6 mm, tip upcurved, strigose.
2n

= 16.

Crotalaria lanceolata subsp. lanceolata
Phenology Flowering Jul–Nov, Jan–Apr (year-round).
Habitat Sandy fields, sandhills, roadsides, ditches, river and swamp edges, woodland edges, disturbed areas, pine flatwoods, palm-live oak woods.
Elevation 0–20 m. (0–100 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; NC; SC; Africa; Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar) [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America (Colombia), e Asia (Taiwan), Pacific Islands (Hawaii), Australia]
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Crotalaria > Crotalaria lanceolata
Name authority unknown
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